0 the condition of being extremely poor:
Two million people in the city live in abject (= very great) poverty.
He emigrated to Australia to escape the grinding (= very great) poverty of his birthplace.
Helping to alleviate poverty in developing countries also helps to reduce environmental destruction.
There is a disappointing poverty of creativity in their work.
1 the condition of being poor:
He grew up in poverty.
The problem of poverty is particularly acute in rural areas.
When is the government going to tackle the problem of poverty in the inner cities?
The problems of poverty, homelessness and unemployment are all interconnected.
Many imaginative changes could be made at no cost, and that is the basis on which we have tried to approach some of poverty's difficult problems.
Thus, the production of development discourse continues as stories of poverty, malnutrition, under development and illiteracy persistently appear in texts and practices.
His findings show powerfully that poverty can structure the individual life course and generational relationships across time.
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